Enter your registration to see when your MOT runs out, plus the full test history behind it: every pass, every failure and every advisory.
✓Your current MOT expiry date
✓Every past test result, pass or fail
✓All advisories and failure reasons
✓Mileage recorded at each test
✓Plus spec, tax, valuation and factory paint
A new car needs its first MOT three years from the date it was first registered, then once every year after that. The expiry date does not move with ownership, so buying a car mid year means inheriting whatever is left of its certificate. If you have owned a car for a while and lost track, the date is recorded against the vehicle and the check returns it in seconds.
You can test a car up to a month minus a day before its current certificate expires and keep the same renewal date, which effectively gives you a free month of cover. Leave it too late instead and the position reverses sharply: driving without a valid MOT risks a fine, and your insurance can be affected. There is no grace period after expiry, only the narrow exception of driving to a pre booked test.
A pass with five advisories tells you far more than a bare pass. Advisories are the tester flagging wear that is not yet a failure, and reading them in sequence across several years shows whether faults were fixed or left to worsen. On a car you are thinking of buying, that pattern is often the clearest signal of how it has been treated.
Enter your registration and we return the expiry date recorded for your vehicle, along with the full history of previous tests.
Up to a month minus a day before it expires while keeping the same anniversary date, so you do not lose any of the time you have paid for.
You cannot legally drive the car except to a pre booked test or a garage for repairs. There is no grace period, and driving without one risks a fine and can affect your insurance.